Bibimbap

Today, I'm gonna talk about the food I ate last week end. I went to Eastwood to have binner with my friends, and I had this food, Bibimbap. This is Korean food and is very common food for Korean people. Actually, I had already had this food before the day, but I ordered it again. that's because the ingredients on the rice depend on the restaurants. So, we can enjoy many types of Bibimbap at each restaurants!!=)



This time, I had bean sprouts, carrots, cucumber, radish, beef, raw egg and korean spicy sauce on the rice. Normally, we mix all of them before eat it.
As you can see, the bowl is made by stone, and it's very hot. that's why we can keep it hot for a long time.
Moreover, we can even put that red sauce if you want it to be spicier. So, everything about Bibimbap can be done by your choice, for example the ingredients and amount of the sauce!!

Let's find your favorite Bibimbap!=)


posted by Daichi

Bourke Street Bakery - Surry Hills

On the easter weekend I got to go to one of my favourite places to have lunch, Bourke Street Bakery in Surry Hills. I like this bakery as they make all the food fresh each day as its all cooked/baked on premises and it tastes really good. They coffee they make is also really good and they even sell a book explaining how they make all their delicious food.

I like going here with friends and family and I always get really good service. This time I decided to have coffee, carrot cake and a home-made pie with chicken and also just a chocolate drink. The mood in the cafe is always relaxed, it's a good place to hang out with friends, the setting of the cafe is a very rustic style as all the table and chairs are wooden and aged. This cafe attracts a very young crowd and is always really busy.

Post By Spencer.

Creme Brulee

As inspired by Pathum from his last blog post, I decided to talk about my favourite dessert of all time as well! : )

After a bit of a hard time for me to decide which dessert I will be talking about in this blog post, I finally chose a French dessert - creme brulee.

Creme brulee is one of the most popular international dessert and so it's not hard for you to have creme brulee in any Western restaurant or even some fusion dessert restaurant!

And now I'm going to show you guys the few steps to this actually-not-that-hard-to-make dessert! :D

1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C).
2. Beat egg yolks, 4 tablespoons sugar and vanilla in a mixing bowl until thick and creamy.
3. Pour cream into a saucepan and stir over low heat until it almost comes to boil. Remove the cream from heat immediately. Stir cream into the egg yolk mixture; beat until combined.
4. Pour cream mixture into the top of a double boiler. Stir over simmering water until mixture lightly coats the back of a spoon; approximately 3 minutes. Remove mixture from heat immediately and pour into a shallow heat-proof dish.
5. Bake in preheated oven for 30 minutes. Remove from oven and cool to room temperature. Refrigerate for 1 hour, or overnight.
6. Preheat oven to broil.
7. In a small bowl combine remaining 2 tablespoons white sugar and brown sugar. Sift this mixture evenly over custard. Place dish under broiler until sugar melts, about 2 minutes. Watch carefully so as not to burn.
8. Remove from heat and allow to cool. Refrigerate until custard is set again

Enjoy! :D

Posted by Shireen :)

Gulab Jamun

Today, I'm gonna talk about one of my favourite Deserts. It is very sweet, full of sugar but one of the favourites of many people. This treat called Gulab Jamun is a very popular desert in Sri Lankan, Indian and Bangladesh communities. You have this as a desert after a meal in the above communities as you may know they have some very spciy main meals - having a sweet like this will definately ease that pain!

It is made of a dough, consisting mainly of milk solids, traditionally, khoya, an Indian milk product (buffalo milk) is rolled into a ball together with some flour then deep fried. It is then put into a sugar syrup flavoured with cardamon seeds and rosewater, kewra or saffron.

Before you eat this, you can put any sauce on is. My personal preference is to leave it alone as it's already dripping in syrup.

Pathum Wanigasekara

Tonkatsu

Today, I'm gonna talk about one of my favorite Japanese food, Tonkatsu. I love cooking it, too!! It is very popular in not only Japan, but also many countries. We can have Tonkatsu in Sydney as well because almost of Japanese restaurants in Sydney have this menu. Some of you might have eaten it before...：-)

The ingredients are;
Sliced pork meat and salt, pepper, bread crumbs, egg, flour.
As desired, some vegetables, (in the picture case, chopped cabbage) and lemon.

How to cook

1. Make incisions on fiber using tip of knife.
2. Pound meat with meat mallet of with the back of the knife. (Do not pound meat too thinly.)
3. Sprinkle salt and pepper on both sides of the meat.
4. Put egg, flour, bread crumbs in 3 separate shallow trays.
5. Dredge flour on both sides of the meat. Pat excess flour off then dip into beaten egg.
6. Spread meat onto bread crumbs. Cover top of meat with crumbs and press.
7. Start frying when oil temperature reached 180C. When meat starts to brown, reduce oil tempurature to 160C. And continue to fry slowly.
8. When small bubbles form on top of the oil, increase oil temperature back to 180C. This insures its crispness.
9. Drain oil on net.
10. Cut into bite size. Move meat to plate.

Before you eat this, you can put any sauce you like on it!! My recommendation sauce is sweet Miso with mastard sauce!!：P

Posted by Daichi

Din Tai Fung (Chinese dumpling house)

On the weekend I went to Din Tai Fung a famous restaurant in Hong Kong and China. This restaurant specialises in steamed dumplings. It's one of my most favourite places to eat the food and service is very good.

I really enjoy the hot broth that sits inside the dumpling, you have to be careful because it is boiling. The skin of the dumpling should be soft and thin, the contents of the dumpling usually contain a meat and some vegetables. This particular one has crab meat inside.

Din Tai Fung is located in the CBD in world square. It is always very busy because it is so popular. Dishes range for $7~20.

Posted by Spencer!

Miso Soup

Today, I'm gonna talk about traditional Japanese soup 'Miso Soup'. It is the most common sidedish and it can be eaten with any food. When I was youger, my mother used to cook it with lots of ingredients. There are a lot of types of Miso Soup, but this time I will explain how to cook 'Miso Soup with Tohu', which is my favorite.

The ingredients are...
7 g dried kelp (Hoshi wakame), 1/2 block tofu, 4 cups dashi (niboshi dashi), 80-90 g miso.
(This amount of ingredients are for 4 people)

How to cook
1, Soak kelp (wakame) in warm water, remove hard stems and rinse with water, strain with net and cut into    bite size pieces.
2, Heat dashi without bringing it to a boil.
3, Smash miso through a net ladel  into dashi, when it is about to boil remove foam rising on the top.
4, Add wakame in the soup

5, Place tofu on palm, cut lengthwise and then into 1/8 th pieces. Slide into soup.

6, When tofu floats to the top, turn off heat.

 posted dy Daichi